Creating our first file is fairly simple. Using an IDE like Visual Studio Code is a good place to start. Eclipse is another popular IDE, as are some others. However, you only have to have a plain text editor if you want. You can use a command line compiler and run time tool if you…
Are you thinking about, or currently in, a Computer Science (CS) program? Do you have questions about the field, and want to know what to expect, and often ask yourself, is this the right place for me? Well, those types of questions, and more will be answered here. As an Assistant Professor and Under Grad…
A sequence is an object which can contain multiple items of data. We can perform operations on a sequence that allow us to work with those individual items. A list, is a sequence in Python, that is mutable, meaning the data within it can be changed while the program is running. Each item in a…
Let’s first look at a void function, as they are the simplest form of function. Additionally, we’re not going to pass any variables into this function. That means, every time it is called, the exact same thing will run. The first line of our function is called the function header. It starts with def, letting…
Functions allow us to write several lines of code, and abstract it out into a function. With a single line, the function name we can call those multiple lines of code. The function may be called at different times in our code, or just called once. The code within a function can be any valid…
We’re also going to look at some initial things that help make coding in Python easier. Multi-line lines of code The first issue is what to do if a line of code starts getting really long. In Python, by default, the line of code ends when you move to a new line. However, you can…
We want to look at performing some simple math in Python. To do so, we’ll first look at our last example from our introduction to Python examples. We took in a number, but in reality, we took in a string that had numbers in it. If we want to treat the value as a number,…
Often when talking to, or about, programming, you’ll hear the term Input, Processing, and Output. It’s kind of the big three in programming, and how we often work. We get some input, from a file, a user, etc… then we process that information, or data if you prefer, and then we provide some output either…
